App Decisions

A startup at the heart of Vietnam’s mobile explosion When Flappy Bird exploded onto smartphones worldwide, mobile app fever hit Vietnam and within a few months mobile app development became ‘sexy.’ A year later, the phenomenon of the game is still echoed at tech-related events throughout Vietnam. At the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, former … Read more

One Million+

10 startups in Vietnam that have reached over one million users There currently is a healthy and growing “middle class” app economy. Mobile analytics firm Flurry reports seeing 357 percent growth over the past 18 months from independently owned apps that have a worldwide audience of over 20 million monthly active users, and 121 percent growth from those with an audience … Read more

Everything in a Click

Shopping no longer has to involve leaving the house Last month, I covered a new trend that’s happening in technology here and that is companies leveraging on the motorbike culture, and one of the sectors in that market is e-commerce. Now, in Vietnam, you can get just about everything online. On Tiki.vn, Vinabook.com, and Bookbuy.vn, you can get a wide … Read more

Great apps for use in Vietnam

  Vietnamese Apps for Intrigue Foody.vn (free) – The fresh new Vietnamese version of Yelp that just came out late last year already has an iPhone app and is one of the biggest competitors for diadiemanuong.com (literally “placesto-eat-and-drink”.com) but conveniently has an English version. The website and app is still bug-infested, but users are flocking to the site and the content keeps getting … Read more